This survey reviews the literature on firm dynamics, innovation and growth aiming to better understand the main … channels through which innovation affects the performance of modern economies. Since innovations fundamentally diffuse through … firm dynamics and innovation. …

In this paper, we aim at re-assessing the undisputed positive relationship between innovation and economic growth by … questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We … several knowledge and innovation indicators, ranging from R&D expenditures, patent data, to newly released data on different …

use both academic publications and patent data to trace the geographical distribution of related knowledge and innovation …

academic research is positively correlated with firms' innovation at the geographical level. There are two reasons that are …

The innovation systems perspective is primarily concerned with the knowledge flow and diffusion and its positive impact … of stimulating economic growth. In innovation systems observed at the regional level there is a tendency of … this paper the relation between innovation and knowledge is illustrated by the high-technology cluster of Campinas. It also …